Stop Illegal Poaching
Stop Illegal Poaching
The Issue
Poaching is illegal hunting, killing, capturing or taking of wildlife violating local or international wildlife conservation laws. Animal poaching endangers not only the population of targeted animals but also other animals in their ecosystem, as it often disrupts the essential balance of nature within a healthy biome. Around the world it is hard to prevent the killings of wildlife, especially done due to civilization, farming activities, industrialization, and to worse activities such as hunting sports for fun.
More elephants and rhinos are dying from poaching than from natural causes or conflict with humans. Their body parts are traded illegally as trophies, traditional medicine, or trinkets on a lucrative black market, but these iconic pachyderms are not the only wildlife species to be slaughtered for human gain. Big cats like the lion and cheetah are killed for their bones, the African wild dog and other large carnivores die at the hands of villagers protecting their livestock, great apes, like chimps, in Central and West Africa, are hunted as bushmeat and their babies traded as pets, pangolins are captured for their scales and meat.
Across the continent’s diverse wild lands, management authorities need data-driven solutions to enhance anti-poaching capacity to allow remaining priority populations to recover from previous, and current, crises. Meanwhile, community-level interventions must explore different economic opportunities that secure rather than destroy biodiversity as pressure on natural resources grows with increasing development, infrastructure, and urbanization.
Poaching can cause populations to drastically plummet, ultimately resulting in extinction. The ripple effect can also imperil other flora and fauna existing within the same biome. Humans are the stewards of the natural world. It is our responsibility to protect wild areas and the animal and plant life that live within their boundaries.
Devastating Effects of Poaching
1. It leads to extinction
2. The animals suffer
3. It leads to more human deaths
4. An imbalance in the ecosystem
Ways to Stop Poaching
1. Recruit more wildlife scouts
2. Make tougher laws
3. Give the animals a sanctuary
4. Outlaw the purchase and sale of animal parts and products
Contact Information
Phone Number: +63-956-590-5634
Gmail: marcoenardecido@gmail.com
Help me stop illegal poaching!
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The Issue
Poaching is illegal hunting, killing, capturing or taking of wildlife violating local or international wildlife conservation laws. Animal poaching endangers not only the population of targeted animals but also other animals in their ecosystem, as it often disrupts the essential balance of nature within a healthy biome. Around the world it is hard to prevent the killings of wildlife, especially done due to civilization, farming activities, industrialization, and to worse activities such as hunting sports for fun.
More elephants and rhinos are dying from poaching than from natural causes or conflict with humans. Their body parts are traded illegally as trophies, traditional medicine, or trinkets on a lucrative black market, but these iconic pachyderms are not the only wildlife species to be slaughtered for human gain. Big cats like the lion and cheetah are killed for their bones, the African wild dog and other large carnivores die at the hands of villagers protecting their livestock, great apes, like chimps, in Central and West Africa, are hunted as bushmeat and their babies traded as pets, pangolins are captured for their scales and meat.
Across the continent’s diverse wild lands, management authorities need data-driven solutions to enhance anti-poaching capacity to allow remaining priority populations to recover from previous, and current, crises. Meanwhile, community-level interventions must explore different economic opportunities that secure rather than destroy biodiversity as pressure on natural resources grows with increasing development, infrastructure, and urbanization.
Poaching can cause populations to drastically plummet, ultimately resulting in extinction. The ripple effect can also imperil other flora and fauna existing within the same biome. Humans are the stewards of the natural world. It is our responsibility to protect wild areas and the animal and plant life that live within their boundaries.
Devastating Effects of Poaching
1. It leads to extinction
2. The animals suffer
3. It leads to more human deaths
4. An imbalance in the ecosystem
Ways to Stop Poaching
1. Recruit more wildlife scouts
2. Make tougher laws
3. Give the animals a sanctuary
4. Outlaw the purchase and sale of animal parts and products
Contact Information
Phone Number: +63-956-590-5634
Gmail: marcoenardecido@gmail.com
Help me stop illegal poaching!
431
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Petition created on June 4, 2023